"How can the government decide what words a journal can use to describe a scientific reality? That reality needs to be named," one journal editor said.
If you’re planning to stay, and deliberately sabotage everything you can, then maybe I can see a special case for that being a noble way to approach it. In some very selected scenarios, you can be so vulnerable economically that you have to stay, or the work can be so important that it’s worthwhile to stay under the tyranny and just do the best you can. But I think acquiescing to this just because they’ll punish you if you don’t is a mug’s way out. They’re going to punish you anyway. They’re going to shut down whole agencies. Staying to avoid being singled out as an objector won’t accomplish anything I can see, in general.
I suppose if that’s the approach, then you’re fucked from the outset. It’s not a case of if you’re going to get ousted from post, rather when.
Yeah. I’d rather go out with some dignity.
If you’re planning to stay, and deliberately sabotage everything you can, then maybe I can see a special case for that being a noble way to approach it. In some very selected scenarios, you can be so vulnerable economically that you have to stay, or the work can be so important that it’s worthwhile to stay under the tyranny and just do the best you can. But I think acquiescing to this just because they’ll punish you if you don’t is a mug’s way out. They’re going to punish you anyway. They’re going to shut down whole agencies. Staying to avoid being singled out as an objector won’t accomplish anything I can see, in general.